This time, Vic Vargo is hired to bid at auction for a valuable sea shell on behalf of an oligarch with more money than sense. Then, the oligarch guards it on its way to a private museum. Easy money, Vargo thinks. What could go wrong? But that's just the start of Vargo's troubles. As everything that can, does go wrong.
Is the oligarch a man to be trusted? Using his wits, strength and reflexes Vargo does his best to save his friends, succeed in his mission and keep his reputation as the best interplanetary recovery agent in the galaxy. Although this is a follow-up to Krillaz, it is a stand-alone story.